It’s fine, it’s cool, Eddie can tell a priest “I’m straight,” but we know the truth.

This week Han, Cil, and Rachel take a thorough look at Eddie Diaz’s dating history with our rainbow glasses to spot the complex layers of queer coding!

Eddie famously says, “I hate being forced to date, feels like I have to perform,” in Season 6 Episode 14 of 9-1-1, “Performance Anxiety.” Buck and Hen are not the only people who raised their eyebrows at that statement, and luckily for you we do have time to unpack all that!

If you look up compulsory heterosexuality (comp-het) in the dictionary, you’ll see a picture of Eddie Diaz trying to pick up women at a golf course. This episode may sound like an Eddie Diaz roast, but we’re just reporting the news. This just in, Eddie cannot get it up (romantically) for women, and we’ve connected all the dots from his dating history in this episode to show you why.

Think of it as a heterosexual post-mortem on why his relationships with Shannon, Ana, Marisol, and Kim failed spectacularly.

You can kiss the clone of your dead ex-wife

Date a former nun, let her catch you cheating

You can say that you choose this life

Break a new heart, another comp-het victim

Well, good luck, Eddie!

Episode title inspired by “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan

📔 Articles & References

🫂 What If Eddie Had Dated Tommy? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here!

📰 Ryan Guzman Reacts to the '9-1-1' Season 7 Finale's Biggest Twists, Collider

📰 ‘9-1-1’ star Ryan Guzman reflects on Eddie’s journey leading up to Season 9 in exclusive interview, YardBarker

🎞️ Take a Chance on Me, edit bu hedwiglitz on Twitter

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Chapters

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:01:37) Queer Coding, Demisexuality, and CompHet

(00:04:27)...

Buck and Eddie keep it 100 on the land, the sea, and the sky!

This week Han, Cil, and Rachel dive into Taylor Swift’s latest album and dig into the lyrics of each song to explain why they’re all about Buddie, actually (romantic).

Join us on our journey through the album as we get pulled into the fire and take a look at how:

1. Buck saves Eddie’s heart from the fate of Ophelia
2. Buck would cry his eyes violet if Eddie ever left him
3. Opalite is THE Buddie song of all time
4. Eddie father figures his own parents
5. Eldest Daughter is Eddie’s love letter to Buck
6. Buddie need to ruin the friendship
7. Actually Romantic is Eddie talking to Tommy
8. Buck’s Wi$h LiSt is right in front of him
9. Buck and Eddie will both be insufferable once they’re together
10. The 118 are a cancelled family who sticks together
11. Eddie can call Buck “Evan” if he wants
12. Buck embodies the title track perfectly

Now you know the life of a Buddie-girl, babe (and we wouldn’t have it any other way)!

Episode title inspired by “The Life of a Showgirl” by Taylor Swift

🎬 TLOAS Edits We Love! 😍

🎞️ the fate of evan buckley [Fate of Ophelia edit] by evcnly, TikTok

🎞️ this banger [Fate of Ophelia edit] by avryshwthorne, TikTok

🎞️ tell me for real do you think it’s forever? [Elizabeth Taylor edit] by runninglikeabuckley, TikTok

🎞️ everything always leads back to each other 🥹🥹 [Opalite edit] by thenfirecat, TikTok

🎞️ I protect the family 👪 [Father Figure edit] by mvddiebuddies, TikTok

🎞️ doomed found family trope i love you [Bobby Nash Father Figure edit] by swirlpoem, TikTok

🎞️ my song!!! [Eldest Daughter edit] by secretgardensinmymind13, TikTok

🎞️ Eldest Daughter edit by shadowssvxd, TikTok

🎞️ they did, in fact, never break that...

This week, Han, Cil, and Rachel are revisiting our Plot Device episode with an addendum focused entirely around Tommy’s return in Season 8 Episode 11 of 9-1-1, “Holy Mother of God.”

In our original special (listen here!) we discussed how Tommy’s role is to showcase Buck's journey of self-discovery and his coming to terms with his bisexuality. Well, we’re back in the building again, with Tommy existing solely to point out Buck’s glaringly obvious feelings for his best friend, and to scoff at the idea of Eddie being straight.

We look at 8x11 through Tommy’s gay judgemental microscope and break down Buck’s internal existential crisis now that the idea of less than platonic feelings for Eddie has been thrown in his face.

Once more with feeling, and this time with gratitude, we explore why Tommy is the ultimate plot device for Buck and Buddie!

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Music by DIV!NITY

Chapters

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:03:58) What is a Plot Device Refresher

(00:07:22) The Bar Betrayal

(00:18:50) “I Don’t Live There Anymore”

(00:23:55) Taking the Plot Device to Eddie’s House

(00:35:23) Now That the Competition’s Out of the Way

(00:41:29) I Don’t Have to Sleep with Everyone I Have Feelings For

(00:48:42) Buck’s Very Bad Defense

(00:56:37) It Had to Be Tommy

(01:02:01) Buck’s Spiraling Escalates

(01:08:30) Buck Doth Protest Too Much to Maddie

(01:13:19) Buck Doesn’t Have Time to Unpack All That

(01:26:14) thanK you Tommy

(01:30:35) Take a Buddie With You!